Across
- 1. the specific tone or quality that a certain instrument or voice has
- 5. how different layers of a piece of music are combined to produce the overall sound
- 9. a standard form of musical composition consisting of a simple usually harmonized melody presented first in its original unadorned form then repeated several or many times with varied treatment so based on the theme that at least some semblance of its general melodic or harmonic form is evident
- 13. in music, the simultaneous combination of two or more tones or melodic lines
- 14. a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes
- 15. holy and religious
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- 2. in music, a system of partially improvised accompaniment played on a bass line, usually on a keyboard instrument
- 3. the first section of a musical structure that is most strongly associated with the first movement of various Western instrumental genres
- 4. musical setting of the Mass for the Dead (missa pro defunctis), named for the beginning of the Latin of the Introit “Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine” (“Give them eternal rest, O Lord”)
- 6. in music, short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch
- 7. a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semi-sacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
- 8. musical texture based primarily on chords which results from combinations of relatively independent melodies
- 10. in music, rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music
- 11. (music that is) not religious in nature
- 12. suite in music, a group of self-contained instrumental movements of varying character, usually in the same key